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` W. CANTER. MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING CHENILLE. No. 37,415. PatentedJaJn. 13,"1863- "filing/a@ PATENT Glance.`I

.WILLIAMCANTEa or New YORK, n.11, Assienon To SAMUEL BERNsrEIN,

. 0F SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT 'iN MACHINERYFOR MANUFACTURING CHENILLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,415, .dated January 13, 1863.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WLLIAM OANTER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in M achines for Manufacturing Chenille; and I do hereby declare that the following is ka. full and exact description thereof.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure lis a side view of my machine. Fig. 2 isa plan view ofthe same.

Neither Aof these drawings represent the machine absolutely complete in ail its details,

. but suiiicient is shown to show the novel features and the relation of the novel features to other portions of the mechanism.

The details of the general mechanism will A be found set forth with some degree of minuteness in the patent issued July 22, 1862.-

My invention consists in certain means of twisting the chenille, cert-ain means of pre-f venting the twist from disarranging or injurionsly affecting the plush, certain means of avoiding the liability of the cuttingpof the cords or belts around which the chenille is employed.

wound, and certain means of taking up' the slack of a continuous oord or wire which is y In the patent of July 22 the chenille was only. partially twisted on the machine which produced it. In my present machine it is fully and completely twisted. In the former patent aforesaid it was twisted by a circuitous means, first twisting a double cord and afterward transferring the twist or partialtwist to the chenille. In my present invention it is twisted directly. In the former patent and in all machines previous to my invention the twist applied in the machines' was allowed to run freely upon the roller or into the bite of the rollers-in which the material assumes the character of chenille. In my present the twist is not so allowed to run, but is restrained, and only a portion ofthe final twist is allowedto f enter the chenille at first., and the remainder to be added afterward. v

In the patent of July 22 the machine was provided withv two endless bands, upon and around which the plush was wound, and between which a knife acted to cut the plush at the proper point and allow it to straighten and form the silky material of the goods. It has been founddiflicult to avoid occasionally destroying these bands at .or near'the splice, by reason of the edge of the knife shaving so cicsely to all parts of each band that it may seize any irregularity, audit is practically impossible to avoid irregularities at the splices in such bands.

In my present mach-ine endless bands, and consequently splices, are dispensed with in theperforznance of that portion of the opera tion, and in lieu thereof a single cord or wire of great length'is run through the machine in such a manner as to serve in the same way as if two endless belts were employed, but with the advantage of offering no ysplice or. other bunch or irregularity, at any point. When the whole extent of my wire or cord has passed.

through the machine, I am compelled to sub- `stituteanothcr or to change the position of r`the saine one, so that it shall pass through again, presenting either the saine end iirst as before or the reverse end; but the length ot' my wire or cord may be so great that this labor is only required at very long intervals, and it is practically insignitlcsnt.,

To enable others properly skilled, and who are familiar with the aforesaid former patentand with the several other previous chenillemachines, to make and use my inveniioml will proceed to describe it by the aid vof thcI drawings and the letters of reference inarkrd *y thereon.

A A is a fixed framing, and B is a main drum, from which all the several parts of the mechanism are driven by the aid of beltingv and gearing.

(Only partially represented.) C is the point where silk, plush, or rather continuous raw silk or other suitable material is wound around, as described in the aforesaid patent of July 22, by means of mechanism not represented, and l) is the knife or other.

suitable cutter which divides `the same as before.

. E and F are wheels which serve as in the said former patent, the material passing nnder E before :it is' cut, and passing therefrom up over Fand being out in the act of passing around or partially aroundF. Y

G and H aresmall wheels mgunted on the xed framing A in such position that the chenille may pass in contact with each in its passage from thewheel E to the twisting znac y sin chinery. These wheels are grooved to retain the chenille thereon and allow the same to be readily removed or changed, if desired. The e'ect of the vcontact of the chenille with the'se wheels is to prevent the fullftwist from passing thesepoints. The mat'erialis only partially twisted inthe act ofleavin g the roller 'orwheel F, and remains in a partlytwistedstate until it passes from the wheel or roller H. ln passing from H it' becomes fully twisted. The evenness and beauty ofthe goods are much greater when thus produced than when the full twist is given on ,leaving tlie wheel F, and the labor of twisting is much less than when the stuff is partially twisted in leaving the wheel F, and is entirely removed 'from the machine and transferred to another before the tlnal twisting is e'ected. My twisting is performed by the aid of the mechanism represented on the left side of the figures. This may be at any distance from the principal portion of the machine which may be desired, `provided the vdriving-belt I be suflicientlylongr J is a series'of pulleys on a single shaft and 11min g together by action of the belt I...

K is a belt leading from J to a -pulley or series of pulleys on 'the hollow spindle L, the effect of the several belts AI andK and the several sizes of pulleys being to rotate L continuously at any given rate relatively t0 the rotations of the nia-in drum B, and consequently to give more or less twist, as desired, to the chenille. The rotations of the hollow spindle vor shaft L are imparted to the chenille by means ofthe cord M, which is a hard and compact cord of a character adapted to bend 'with freedom, but not to betwisted or iuntwisted, except to a small extent without' great resistance. This cord M is hooked-to the forward end of the chenille and conducted around a wheel N, 'which is `mounted on and turns with the spindle L, and is thence conducted through the interiorI of L to the' sheare O, and thence to a swivel 3which joins it to a cord, Q as represented, The eti'ect of the rotation of M is to twist the chenille in the .obvious manner by rotating the hook which tent to perfect the goods. The rotationvotv the cord M produces no effect in the other direction, by reason ofthc. swivel l?, which rotates freely and causes the rotation to be ended at that point, and not transmitted to and accumulated in the cord Q. This lcord Q is coiled one or more times around.l the shaft- It, and passes from. thence down to, and is coiled op, a suitable spool or bobbin, which is y loosely connected by a frctionsprng with the shaft S. The shafts S and lt are turned by suitable connections to themain drurnB, and take up the cord. Q at the same rate as 'the chenille is delivered from the wheels F and H,

the sheaves vN and rotating vslowly on their several axes, to allow'the cord M to he grada ally-drawn endwise through the hollowspindle L, until a complete length of chenille'is pro-` duced, extending from the wheel H to or near the sheavel N. When this is done, the operator stopsthe machine, disconnects the cord Q from its iirm` attachment to tlieishait S, andv cuts oii the chenille near the wheel H, leaving ashort end ready to commence the nextlength with., The piece cut is now wound upon a reel, (not-represented,and in the act the cords Q and M are drawn baci; to theirl original positions. IThe h-oolr-on the end of M is now attached to the forward and projecting end of the next length' of chenille, and the round of operations repeated.

T and U are hobbins on which are coiled or wound a continuous wire, W, the bobbin T being driven bythe band #so as to maintain a' continuous but gentle draft on the wire, and wind it upon itself as fast as it is delivered.

.The hohbin U is subjected to a slight friction,'

stas to deliveritscontents as fast asitis called for, and no faster. On startingthe'maehine .the wire W is mostly wound on the bobbiu U, but as the work proceeds it is gradually transferred to the bohhn T, until all is consumed or transferred, when the parte must be readjusted by changing the places of thebobbins,

putting the bobbin T, which will then be free, in the piace of the bobbin U, which wili then he empty,.and vice versa, and leading the wire each time yproperly through theseveral circuits which-.it is required to make in its-trans-v i'er. These circuits are such that it is twice carried through the winding mechanism G and around the Wheels E and l?. The rst.

time that any given part ofmthe wire W goes through the winding and cutting portion of the machine it serves as a substitute for one of the endless belts employed in my former. invention, and the secondtime it goes through- (which occurs a few seconds 'or' minutes later) it serves as axsubstitu te for the otherv endless belt employed in my former invention. The double circuit thus performed hy the wire'in traveling-'roni' the bohbin U to the bohhin T may be traced on the drawingsas follows:

`from U, under a weighted pulley, X, aroundpulley'Y, up around theA wheel l, forwardagain through the winding mechanism under the Wheel E, and over the wheel F, (being grazed this time on its right side by the knife 1),) thence Vaga-in over the Wheel 2,A and again down and around the shaft B, passing around one or more times. This completes its seccrai i circuit, and from R it is now lcd to and wound upon the bobbin T, to restfuntil at some subsequent period it is again required. lfmd by trial that this mode of operating.:l is perfectly practicable, but that the wire W sliable to grow longer eachl time. it is thus drawn through the machine. I haveobserved this more especially to occur during the first few times .that a Wire is used, and to remedy the inconvenience this might occasion in harmonizing the two circuits of the wire, I employl the weighted pulleys X and Y, as represented, and the pulley 3. By these all slack which might otherwise be embarrassing' is automat- .ically taken up, it being readily understood that the pulley 3 may be readily moved backward and forward upon the machine or upon the ilocr of the room b 'v moving` the sta-nd 4, upon which it is supported, in any obvious manner. The-eti'ect of the lengthening of the yvire W is to induce a descent ofthe weighted pulley Y, and this I allow topr'oceed until it becomes inconvenient or in danger of becoming ineective, and I then move the stand 4 and its pulley 3 farther from' the other vpulleys-that is, farthervtoward the left-hand side of 'the tiguress-and this movement takes np so much slack that*V the weighted pulley. Y is thereby restored to the positionindicated.'

I do not confine :myself tothe precise forms -und constructions ot' the parts or to the ma.-

terials herein shown and described. A cord of' any kind may be substituted for the wire W; other winding machinery'than that described in my patent of July 22, 1862, may

be used; the .winding'magy be done at-other than the point C; other cutting means than the knife D may be used; simple pins or wires or other surfaces may be used in' lieu of the l' wheels G H, and a. greater number of these surfaces different-ly disposed may be used; and with all these, and agreat variety of additional modifications, all the eiects of my invention may be realized in what I consider substantiallythe same way.

Ilz-:ving no w fully described my invention,

.with the advantage herein set forth".

4.A The employment, in machinesfor makingchenille, ot' the sheave 3, or its lequivalent, arranged to operate in combination with the l -contimious wire or cord W, substantially M 'and for the-purpose herein set forth.

wu. oANTER Witnesses THOMAS D STE'rsoN, GEORGE h. S'rmTsoN. 

